On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Nathan <nawr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can anyone remind me what the per day and per month post limits are, > and confirm that someone is still keeping track? > > We've established in the past that a collegial atmosphere is desired > by the people who post to and read this list. Some have never agreed, > but that is why some have previously been moderated. Limits and > moderation have been the only tools effective against those who can't > find the energy to be nice; reason has never worked, though it has > been deployed at each opportunity. Let's use the tools at hand, and > avoid sidetracking useful discussion with meta problems. >
30 posts per month. No one has come close to hitting the limit in at least a few months. We didn't go with a per-day limit because there are times when posting 6 or 7 times in a day is fine - for example, when we've got a few constructive threads going at once. When it becomes problematic is when you're doing a back-and-forth that's getting heated. And I guess what I would say to that is, if you're posting in a thread that's becoming a little heated, particularly one that you've posted in already, maybe you should hold off on sending your e-mail for a few hours. Then, you can decide whether you really want to send that e-mail - with the added benefit of giving others time to cool down as well. But I don't think you could set a per-day limit that would be effective without being restrictive. As for moderation, I think that we've tried to apply a light touch, particularly given that the atmosphere has seemed to improve over the last few months. That said, if moderation is necessary, then we'll do so. -- [[User:Ral315]] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l